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MSN’s Page Turner blogger Mary Pols tweeted last night: “Books blog gone.”
MSN ended her freelance contract at the blog where Pols wrote about books every week. In the Storify story below, we’ve collected her Twitter posts and some commentary from her online readers. Jim Romenesko has the complete memo from MSN about the cuts.
Readers can contact Pols at her personal blog. As you can see by the posts below, many more MSN freelance writers also lost work yesterday as well.
(Link via Shelf Awareness)
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New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.
Journalist and author Jonah Lehrer has come under media scrutiny this week after he was caught recycling his own writing from The Wall Street Journal for NewYorker.com, where he recently joined as a staff writer.
Media critic Jim Romenesko discovered that Leher had repurposed copy about how and why people respond incorrectly to a simple arithmetic question about the cost of a bat and a ball. Literary blogger Edward Champion found recycled material in Leher’s recent book as well.
Since Romenesko’s discovery, The New Yorker has updated the post with an Editors’ Note, which reads, “Portions of this post appeared in similar form in an April, 2011, post by Jonah Lehrer for Wired.com. We regret the duplication of material.” (It is also is an October WSJ story, as Romenesko points out). continued…
New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.
